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HIGH PRAISE FOR AN AMERICAN RIDER. Although he was bora in America. J. II. Martin has been among us sufficiently long to have almost become one of us. "SkeetS, as he is invariably • ailed, lii si beheld the light of day in 1875. so that lie is approaching the veteran stage, so far as latter-day race riders go. though such as John Os-borae and Tom nsnatra were seen in the saddle much later in life. Martin was one .f those who came to this country at the lime of the "Ameriean Imxiiii." but in con-iiadistinclien to the majority of the riders from the other side who tempted fortune in England, he cauie to stay. He sum acquired popularity, which he retains — and deservedly so — to the present day. Latterly he has 1 u associated Chiefly with the horses owned by Mr. II. I. Whitney and trained by another popular Ameriean. Andrew Joyner. Among the races won by Martin in the Eton blue and brown sleeves "t Mr. Whitney was the Middle Park Plate of 1910; in which on Borrow he beat the dead-heaters. Seaforth and Rietri. by a neck. He also won tie same race a year later, when, on Mr. J. R. Joels second string. Absurd, lie finished three lengths ahead of Sweeper IE. with Mr. Joels first choice and favorite. White Star, third. He also was concerned in several of the victories of that smart sprinter Harmonic. ui. His tiist classic triumph was recorded in the memorable Derby of 1903, wherein Aril Patrick won bj three lengths from Rising Glass, with Friar Tack third, and sceptre, which won the Thole of the remaining classics, fourth. Ard Patrick, again ridden by Martin, later on took ihe Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot en the disqualification of Cupbearer. Martin was also on the back of Rock Sand when that colt won the Two Thousand in the following spring. This was a larky win in a way. as but for the fact that Maker, the fitst jockey to Rlackw ells stable, was claime,| for Flotsam, owned bv Sir Daniel Cooper, who had a prior claim over sir J. Miller, "Danny" weald certainly have had the mount on the son of Sainfoin, on which be subsequently Won the Derby and St. Legcr. Martin also rode Troutbeck when the Duke of Westminsters colt ran third to Spearmint and Pieton in the Derhv of 1900. Martin rode seventeen winners last season, one of his most important successes being gained in the Ribury Club Stakes on Telephone Girl, on which he also won other miner races. At the back-end meetings Martin was riding with exceptional dash tad yvas responsible for some wonderfully fine finishes. One of the best of these nas that on All Serene, then known as the Allegra colt, on the occasion of that animals dead heat with Dusky Roy. — London Sporting Life.
